Monday, July 16, 2007

Five Years On

It's five years ago tonight since a stranger came to my door.Since he told me to be silent and to 'never speak, never say a word, bitch, or I will kill you'.Then he tried to kill me anyway. Beat me. Smashed me up. Tied me up with wire.But I was already dead to him. I had slipped far away where he couldn't get me .So he left my body on the floor, and he ran away.And I won that fight.

'Nobody's gonna come get you. Don't you scream for help.' he saidBut I came back to life, and I got up and got help.'Where's yo' man, now bitch? ' he had taunted.My man came. My man held me and loved me and stood with me.My man married me.So I won that fight too.

And I told my man everything. I told everyone who loved me, everything.I told the police, I told the Judge - and now the stranger is in jail.And everyone knows what he is. Dirty loser psycho criminal.He got fifteen years. Three concurrent. He'll probably be out in 2008 or 2009.But I'm free now. I'll always be free.I won that fight.I won every fight.Hands-down, sucker-punch, slam-dunk, no comeback, no mercy, game over.

Think you can tell me to be silent?Think you can tell me nobody will help?Think you can break me? Fuck you, mister. I won.

It is ludicrous that such an evil weasel could ever think he had genuine power over anyone using nothing but brute force to assert said power.

I hope prison is doing its duty by him and giving him time to both reflect and regret. Sadly I don't hold out much hope for prison as a place of reformation these days. At the very least, let's hope he's moved on from his attack on you and scales down his criminal activities when released.

Yes, Rachel, you have certainly won all the psychological battles, the battles of the mind. But to read that this monster will be out of jail possibly by next year?... Without wishing to politicise this, is that in any way indicative of a government acting "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime"? Shouldn't you, and other women, be made safe from the likes of him for a very long time, even until his death? (or at least until he is far too old to pose a realistic threat)? Five years inprisonment and then free again, to me that is a travesty of justice.